Gamekool are giving a discount for PDRoms visitor once again, just like the year before.

If you order enter the code “PDROMS.DE” – You’ll recieve an 8% discount on the order volume, this means item plus shipping will be discounted. The code is vaild till 31.12.2009.

On a sidenote we want to tell that PDRoms will NOT profit in any way from this. Just enjoy this possibilty and try to make a good deal 🙂

http://www.gamekool.com/

Everything should be really back to normal now, we found another serious issue which had to be fixed.

Another thank you for that goes to BitBreaker/Metalvotze, you can visit them here: http://www.metalvotze.de

We will try to keep up with all the news we have missed, just give us some time. Actually you can thank Kedo too, that he started to post news again, so basically I can’t leave it incomplete. I’ve been really close to drop all that stuff here…

-koj

ZodTTD helped out with a few last issues, everything should be more stable and faster now! Thanks man!

Visit his page and leave him a thank you too 🙂 -> http://www.zodttd.com

-koj

Dear visitors,

The attack is gone (for now), the page seems stable.

The past days were really a pain in many ways and related to this I also had a financial loss. Considering PDRoms generates no money, but costs money – plus this extra loss – I am far from amused and was very close to drop all this stuff.

Whatever we tried to do, the attacks continued. On this way here I would like to thank Evildragon, chrissie and celeth for helping out. Unfortunately the attack was extremely massive, that even the guys at the server farm were unable to help.

I am not quite sure if I will continue to maintain and even run PDRoms or just keep it like this and let it disappear before the next server bill arrives.

-koj

Dear visitors,

PDRoms is beeing DDOS’ed and there is nothing we can do about this. We have to wait and see when the attacks disappears on it’s own.

The loading time is incredibly high, but you should be able to get something displayed.

Regards
Kojote & Team

Retrogaming Times Monthly #66 is available. RTM is a retro magazine, sometimes with focus on homebrew things.

Content of this issue:

ATTRACT MODE
* Press Fire To Begin
* Retrogaming News
* High Score Monthly! Profile

THE RETROWORKS
* Christmas Memories From The Golden Era
* 1982: The Best Christmas Ever
* Fooling The Stores: A 1984 Guide To Videogame Return Policies
* Apple II Incider – My Apple II Wishlist
* Pitfall!: A Homebrewer’s Journey
* Looking Forward Into The Past

THE GAME REVIEW H.Q.
* Please Save Christmas Santa!
* Vectrexenstein – In Hibernation
* Dual Perspective – Super Mario Brothers
* All Eyes On Mega Man III
* Modern Retro – Tekken 3
* Old Wine in New Bottles: Taito Legends 1 & 2
* A Pixilated 21st Century!

POWERING DOWN
* Video Game Tattler
* Gaming Advertisements
* Game Over

http://www.retrogamingtimes.com/rtm67/

We just had a talk with our friends at Gamekool and they are giving a discount for PDRoms visitor once again, just like the year before.

If you order enter the code “PDROMS.DE” – You’ll recieve an 8% discount on the order volume, this means item plus shipping will be discounted. The code is vaild till 31.12.2009.

On a sidenote we want to tell that PDRoms will NOT profit in any way from this. Just enjoy this possibilty and try to make a good deal 🙂

http://www.gamekool.com/

Major french webpages are currently linking to PDRoms. This started at about 10:20am. The server was not able to handle the requests.

EvilDragon of OpenPandora fame ( http://openpandora.org/ ) gave us a helping hand to sort things out. Everything should at least run a lot better than before!

Happy browsing 🙂
-koj

Our scene friends at Nintendomax wrote a few words about news plagitarism in the homebrew scene. Use a translator of your choice and go over it. The original french article is linked.

After the initial step of PDRoms to route our visitors to one of our very own “special” friends, as sign of silent protest, someone could say that most of the other sites covering homebrew should be entering a state of changing and understanding, sadly this isn’t the fact.

If you spend hours and hours looking for news manually or even with automized tools, which still require you to feed it with data, the least you can expect is a proper crediting as a small thank you.

Most scene pages don’t earn a single dollar and their staff works for free to bring you an appropriate service.

As people would say in a webboard: “Don’t feed the trolls!” – So go on, make your own opinion and decide your steps. We are not telling you to do anything, it must be really a decision of your heart.

http://www.nintendomax.com/index.php?topic_id=10848

Speckdrumm ( http://www.speckdrumm.org ) are having a “Demoscene Outreach” in Vienna, Austria on 14th November 2009.

We will show DEMOS ( http://www.demoscene.info ), have seminars about Gameboy Coding, Vectrex Coding a close look at few demo creation tools and MORE.

Be there, entry is free!

http://metalab.at/wiki/2009-11-14_Demoscene_Outreach